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has anyone had any problems with them?

tried it on 2 computers, photo's are copying slowly, and thumbnails loading slowly?

any ideas?
 
What USB ports do you have?
I have sub 2.0 ports on mine and a few 2.0 ones and if i use the pre 2.0 ones its like pulling teeth.
Try all your ports and see whats the fastest, if they are all the same report back.
 
subliminal1ne said:
has anyone had any problems with them?
tried it on 2 computers, photo's are copying slowly, and thumbnails loading slowly?
any ideas?
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when things slow down on my laptop..and my previous pc i did these things

reg clean, startup clean and unnecessary files deleted using toni arts reg cleaner
do a disc cleanup and empty the recycle bin
do a defrag
do a virus scan of all files

finally shut down and restart...

my laptop slowed recently and i think it was too much protection from too many sources trying to do the same job
i uninstalled everything and reinstalled avast free virus protection only

do you use a card reader, and i do expect your usb to be 2.0...otherwise that could be a cause

you can check your processor on utilities or by running disc doctor..which is free

will be interested to see if any of this works
 
i have found part of the problem, the card reader! its a crappy technika one from tesco, allthough i think i have a minor card fault as a few of my jpg's have big grey squares on them.
think i will invest in a new card reader, and see what happens, use the 2x 4gigs for important stuff.
 
subliminal1ne said:
i have found part of the problem, the card reader! its a crappy technika one from tesco, allthough i think i have a minor card fault as a few of my jpg's have big grey squares on them.
think i will invest in a new card reader, and see what happens, use the 2x 4gigs for important stuff.
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great!!
i have had a technika mouse which went kaputski so i can sympathise...the reader i have now is a MotionFlash 17 card reader although i only have SD and Xd...:lol:
it has served me well over the years

did you do the hard drive clean up anyway or was my ideas a bit naive..

cheers
geof
 
If it's one of the cheap 8gb ones, yeah I've used one before. It'll be slow copying/thumbnails due to the speed of the card. I tried one in a dslr and it fails to write to the card when high speed shooting, will record the first image but every shot after that is just blank/corrupt. It really is worth investing in some proper cards.
 
I have an 8GB Kingston CF rated at x133 (20MBs) and it is a lot lot slower than a Sandisk rated at 15MBs.
I suppose it could be counterfeit.
 
Sandisk Extreme 3's for me everytime. I had a couple of kingston fail so won't use them.
 
always copy from the card to the pc in the 'list' view
any other will slow things up
 
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